TAG Product: Fragment Identifiers and Mime Types

This draft work plan was prepared by Henry Thompson for review at the 4-6 January 2012 TAG F2F. It was agreed there that the TAG would reinvest in this work, but that more discussion was needed to get consensus on or further refine the plan proposed below.

Goals

The goal of this work is to describe the contradictions in the definitions between different specifications (such as media fragments and application/xml mime type definition) in the definition of fragment identifiers, to describe any changes to draft documents that are required to manage those contradictions, and to provide some general guidelines to those creating mime type definitions in the future around the interpretation of fragment identifiers.

Success criteria

The TAG will work, as appropriate, with any or all of the following groups to avoid and/or resolve contradictions that might otherwise arise in their draft or published specifications.

the editors of 3023bis

the editors of the mime type definition for SVG

the RDFa Working Group

the Media Fragments Working Group

the HTML Working Group

which avoids or documents contradictions in the final versions of the drafts those groups are currently working on.

The TAG will work with the IETF and the W3C to update the templates for MIME type registrations as necessary to promote consistent and accurate documentation of fragment id semantics

The TAG will provide guidelines that are used in the sections on fragment identifiers by the developers of future mime type regulations.

Key deliverables with dates:

At it's 5 January 2012 F2F, the TAG agreed to reinvest in this effort,
starting by revisiting the plan for work. A new set of deliverables will
be advertised here shortly.

Schedules:

17 February 2012: a plan, including proposed key deliverables and
schedules for interim checkpoints will be available for review.